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What is this?

  What type of blog is this?? 

I read on some page somewhere that all blogs should fall into some sort of category... Which got me thinking. Is this a travel blog?? I certainly talk about my travels, but I don't know if the whole content falls here. It's def not a cooking blog, although I do post what I am eating and have been known to add a recipe here and there...

Lifestyle blog? Maybe... But I feel that implies I need to either have kids or talk more about my sex life (gotta have one to talk about it I spose...)

So what will I call this? I think it is a "life experiences/conversational/mind dump" blog. Hope this title is ok with everyone...

*mental note to change the blog description*

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What really happens in Johto...

  Myself and a friend got chatting the other day, and for whatever reason our conversation turned to one of my favourite topics - pokemon. He raised some disturbing points that I want to flesh out here on my life experiences/conversational/mind dump (henceforth called ECMD blog). 

  First, I want to say that these are questions that can be applied to all Pokemon regions, not just Johto, but as I am playing Pokemon Ruby on my phone atm, note that I am referring to the Johto region and all Pokemon I mention will be from there. 

  Ok. So, you get given a Pokemon by the good Profession Littleroot, and you start catching Pokemon. You battle with them, and end up a champ. Let's apply this to a real life situation. You capture an animal and train it to battle until it passes out. Some of them you keep in the back of a van in the dark, others are sent to a warehouse where they are kept in dark cages and never seen again. The ones in your van you train to fight, and regularly challenge people and are challenged in return. You right your animals for money. You force them to grow up with growth hormones (yeah, "rare candy" my arse) or prevent them from growing. You do this repeatedly for your own personal gain. And yet people tell you that your animals like to battle. 

  Let's now look at what is happening in the world of Pokemon. I used to watch the show. It was good. Here are some interesting observations - 

You never see any farm animals, or see any regular fish or birds. 

You see Ash and his friends eating burgers and pizza and other things.

Sometimes you see Pokemon doing hard labour. 

Here is what I think:

They are eating pokemon. They need meat, and there are no cows or whatever so they have, as my friend put it, "pikachu steaks"... And for sport, do they hunt the deer Pokemon? And shoot the bird Pokemon? 

Is there illegal fishing of the sea Pokemon? WHO MANAGES THESE THINGS?

Do people keep goldeens in a bowl like a normal goldfish?

What about that Pokemon that kinda looks like a giraffe? I wonder if someone out there has pelts hanging on their wall of that one... 

  And we who are playing are like sick hunters... we look for the most rare pokemon, the ones where there is only ONE LEFT IN THE WORLD and we try to catch it. And then we force it to fight. What the hell are we turning our children into??

  As you probably know I am eagerly awaiting the next Pokemon game to be released. I will be all over that like Asians on rice. 

In other news...

  I was mega emo last Friday, just missing people who have left Korea and also home... I have had so many dreams lately where I am in Australia. Its prob cos of all the planning for my trip back in January. I will be home for about 3 weeks before heading back to the land of kimchi, so hit me up if you wanna hang. Anyway I had too many drinks and ended up yelling at some poor guy I know (overwhelmed him with English and girl tears. He was suitably freaked out), and then went and had a cry to Steve, Jinsook and Shanda. Sorry everyone... I am not usually a teary drunk, but I was feeling kinda overwhelmed. And lonely. I miss my old friends sooo much. Korea isn't the same without them. 

  I want to buy a new camera. I have pretty much decided to get the Sony NEX 5T, it seems to have all the cool features I want. I don't know much about cameras and stuff so this is a decision based of recommendations by friends. I will let you know when I get it and start posting stupid pics and hopefully doing some new videos. 

Ok, I think thats all I have for now. Let's talk again later, ok??

xoxox

Who's line is it anyway?

Another "charged" write up...

I need to stop reading the news.

Disclaimer! I honestly do not know much about these issues... this is simply an uneducated person's opinion. No offense is meant.

re-write!!! turns out i mean Syria all this time :D 

  Today I am confused about Syria. Exactly what is going on over there?? I mean, I guess we can never really know because we are not over there living it, but it seems to me that the following has happened (correct me if I am wrong, or feel free to enlighten me with more):

- The Assad (or whoever) let off poison gas that killed around 1300 innocent people, many of them children

- They did this for no apparent reason

- Although Syria does produce oil, there are other countries that produce a heap for

- Chemical people from the UN were shot at when they arrived in Syria to assess what actually happened with the chemical attack

- Libya are in the midst of a civil war... No idea about Syria

  Now I am unsure... Is this going to turn into a full on war? Like, where everyone else gets involved?? And, do these "involving" countries need to wait for the UN to decide what to do? Who's line is it anyway? Who is in charge?

Let me be more blunt.

  Is America going to wait for the UN to give them to go ahead to get into another war, or are they just gonna head on in there? What power does the UN actually have? 

  The sort of things I read today included the US asking to use 3 different military bases in Greece, France also wants in on the action, China and Russia are planning on supporting Libya and if America goes to war then more Australian troops will be sent out. Just great. I thought we were out of the Middle East for a while.

  And then I start to feel guilty for thinking this way... If I lived in a country where I was fearing for my life, and the lives of my family every day then I would want someone to step up too. It's almost an obligation of a stable country to come to the aid of people who are losing their lives and rights. I can understand wars starting for humanitarian reasons. For example - from what I know about Rwanda all those years ago, it was the right thing to do, to go in and finish that. People were being killed all over the place. But it makes me wonder... 

  Thousands of people die every day in places all over the world from starvation and disease, that would be prevented and also not tolerated in the western world. How come no one is marching in to save these people? I am always seeing people trying to raise money for people in Africa. There are millions of North Koreans living in shocking conditions with children dying of starvation and exposure every year, but no one has marched in there and saved them. And all the "boat people" that Australia turns away every year? They are fleeing for their lives. What countries are they from? How come no one is trying to save them?

  I agree that this issue in Syria needs to be addressed, I just really hope it is for the right reasons. I always worry when big power countries are so quick to go in and make a change. 

I will be taking more of an interest in this "event" as it unfolds...

xx